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• . v Rlffefr- ip:^ ■.: v '-' ' * j* ' \ u wP&m. > l* y>* - • k ' > i .. , .* ^ - ^ FAM TWO f ■ ii i ■— ■■■" — ’ — m ii i J K' 4 :* /• ■r TPE1PAT, ®br (EamiJpn (Sl?ronirlp 1119 Nona oro«d Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY and FRIDAY EACH WtRK Harold C. Booker DaCoata Brown - - - Editor - Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscr^tiona Payable In Advance One Year $8.60 Six Month* — 2.00 Entered m Second Claas Matter at the Peat Office at Camden, 8. C, under act of Confreaa March t. l»7t 1 All article* submitted for publication must be signed by the author TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1950 A Timely Warning Representative L. Mendel Rivers of the first Souflh Carolina congressional district, who dpes not trim his saij to every po litical wind, has issued ar-very solemn warning to the people of South Carolina that they had better^e /m their guard when the Democratic clubs of the state meet this week-end lest the Truman forces capture them. The first district Congressman called on all loyal defenders of States Rights to block an attempt which he says is an un dercover attempt to 'seize control of the state Democratic party. He called those who would seize control of party “Tru- mancrats'’—and warned regular party leaders that they were in for a Pearl Har bor if they didn’t work actively against pro-Truman men in South Carolina. "If you stay at home on the 25th you W/ll never again have the right to com- plnin about the actions of the national Democratic party or the administration," said Mr, Rivers. "The national committee has plenty of money to spend and is spend ing it in South Carolina in the hope that our leader* will be caught asleep on March 25 so that the Trumancrats can stage a political Pearl Harbor against those who had the courage two years ago to stand up for States Rights." Mr. Rivers pointed out/that if the pro- Truman men capture the offices in club meetings t&yy, could win the county con vention offices and tfieh fake pyerlbe state convention—from the regular anti- Truman State party. • <; The warning sounded by Congressman Rivers should be heeded „all over South Carolina. The Trumancrats are busy as bees and if the States Righters fall asleep this week-end they may lose control of the party machinery. Kershaw county was one of the bul warks of the States Righters two years ago and it is to be hoped that every States Rightei in the county will turn out for his club meeting this week and see that States ighters are elected delegates to the coun ty convention and on thr county executive committee. ^ ^ \ IV ITs Ju»t A$ Well e% ’ . t ■* . " / ‘' r y* Reports from Washington.indicste that Federal aid to education is dead at this seAiion of Congress. ^ • / It’s just as well that it is because there is ifo\measure before the Congress fraught with kore danger to the country th^n that As a final effort to save the measure President Truman assured the House com mittee that he would not interfere with State control of funds so appropriated. The Hartsville Messenger very correctly says that this very stetement by the Wiuffga dent "is an admission that interference by any administration is a clear possibility." "It is an admission/’ says The Messeng er,/‘that-once federal aid is given, federal control can easily follow. „ Such matters should not be left to the ‘whims’ of any administrator or any particular political p?.rty. It is too obviously a tool for po litical manipulations. ’ : A _ "Again the very fact that one Congress can appropriate funds for federal aid without ‘strings’ does not bind a succeed ing Congress. Any later Congress could abolish any existing aid or could continue <it with federal restrictions. "The President’s statement clarifies the isiue. Past denials of potential interfer ence by proponents of the bill are rendered valueless. Wherdver Federal disburse ments have been made, federal control has followed. "It is also to be remembered that the menace of a centralized ‘welfare state’ is economically unsound. Federal adminis trative costs of collection, handling, dis bursements and the like take out too much. The proportionate amount levies and col lected at the local level will return more on the dollar than after its federal shrink age." * / Our Hartsville contemporary has stated the case iwell. The Camden Chronicle has fought federal aid to schools from the very beginning because it has felt that inevitably it would lead to federal control. It is good to note that there is a very general awakening now as to the dangers along that line. Can Stand Just So Much An afed man »*y» in a magi atna article that the Americana of man §5 jreara old' who waa is a hotel lobby one morning watching a young tallow who appeared to be somewhat down in- the dumpa. •'What's wrong?” the .old man asked him. ”1 feel awful," said the youngster. “Why are you com plaining?" snapped . the octogen arian, 'Tre been feeling awful in the morning for fifty yoara." ^ A tax on spending along with the tax on buying means that the governments get your money com ing snd going. There's too much Incapability, irritability, Instability and incom- patabillty in the world today. One reason people generally f&ll to realise the danger of being killed in an accident is that they have never been killed In one. A striking resemblance between the average new-born baby and the average father Is that bqlh are baldheaded. That Michigan woman who Is suing her husband for divorce on the grounds that he shot *t* her nine times, missing her each time, shonld think the situation over! Next time she might get a better shot An employment manager says that tha average girl in consider ing a position always takes into account the opportunities It will offer her to meet young men. "It’s almost impossible to get a girl to take a position In a town where there are few eligible young men.” be says. Well, that’s natural. Every girl wants a job with a future to it. Somehow or other we have never thought it right to play jazi music on an upright piano. A 4 The average man eats twice as much as he should and only half as much as he could. IN Jett Billy Fallaw Talks On Traffic Safety The emphasis was on traffic safety at the regular meeting of the Camden Civitans held Monday night at Emerson’s Drive-In. Guest speaker of the evening was Sgt. Billy Fallow from the Safety Edu cation division of the State High way Department. Sgt Fallow, introduced by C. L. ‘ ? Bud” Boley, spoke to the group on the Highway Depart ment’s current safety program in the state, and suggested precau tions and steps that might be taken to make the highways safer. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on April 17, 1950, Roscoe Hall will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County bis final return as Executor of the estate of F. R. Hall deceased, and on the same date he will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Executor. 79T4tp N. C. ARNETT Probate Judge Capiden, S. C., March 16, 1956. For Safer Driving Says an editorial in Grit magazine: ‘‘Teen-agers have established a rec ord for being the most dangerous drivers on the highways. "Inexperience and the normal reck- __ lessness of youth are undoubtedly two of the basic reasons for this lament able record. j- "Youthful drivers need some dis cipline. They need it from their parents and in the form of law* and — regulations to forbid driving privi leges to youths unable properly to qualify for them. The hot-rodders who endanger life and limb should x be chased off the roads and kept off until they learn to respect the rights and satety of others. "Hot-rodders are fortunately a minor phase of the menace. Inex perience. rather than callous .reck lessness, is the chief factor to be met. nd studies prove it is possible to do High school courses in driver edu- ation and training have in some in- nces cut teen-age accident tolls in If. Such instruction, plus the com- oined efforts of parents and highway police to curb irresponsibility on the part of youthful drivers, should go a long way toward solving this prob lem." • . There’g a * tor y around in Cam- don to the effect that some local teen agers came back fTom a trip the other night during which they had climbed to a speed of 100 miles per hour. Nobody can drive safely at that speed. Any one who does so is endangering the lives not only of every one in that car but of every one else on the highway. Parents who let their children have their cars should take some steps to see that they drive within the bounds of rea- ■+* 7! When it became known that Paul Robe son, tke hegrij 'Cb^hiiani^t kBg^cr, waa scheduled to appear on Mrs. FrahUhi D. Roosevelt’s television program last Sun* night tha National Broadcasting Com pany was flooded with protests from every section. The protests were so vehement that son Elliott Roosevelt and Marvin Jones, co-producers of the show, decided to eliminate Robeson from the program. Within 24 hours after the announcement that Robeson would appear on the pro gram, the National Broadcasting Company 4 said that it was swamped with more than 200 telephone calls protesting the progr&ip. The negro communist was due to take part in a discussion of **The Position of the Negro in American Political Life." Robeson has been a consistent critic of American democracy and loud in his praise of Russia. % The Roosevelts are beginning to learn now that the people will just stand for so much. In Wnahloxton It Is fakb, hope and party, and the greatest of these Ur party. 1 ■ . V What will John L ,ij*xt? *V There Stands Mississippi There is no weakening on the part of tthe people of Mississippi in their fight for States Rights. - The lower house of the Mississippi Gen eral Assembly by a vote of 118 to 1 has passed a bill which would bar all Truman- ites or Trumancrats, whichever you prefer to call them, from using the Democratic party name in that state. States Rights Democrats insist that they are the legal Democratic party in Missis sippi. South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama were the four states that stood* Fhoulder to shoulder in the fight for States Rights two years ago and we be lieve this year will find them again fight ing together. Certainly there can be no doubt as to where Mississippi stands. Not Room For Both „ .9 The American Legion has a fighting national 'commander in Geerge N. Craig. He isn’t afraid to take a bold stand on vital issues and he isn’t afraid to fight the radicals in this country. In Columbia last Tuesday he told the South Carolina Department of the Legion at its Spring rally: "I say to you now there isn’t room in the United States for the Communist party and the American Legion and the American Legion is not going to move out ft t. t It’s a pity we don’t have room for every body to live in Camden. . - everything you can to make new* Untofls some way Is devised to keep fraud out of our popular elec tions they may not remain popular elections. A Mrs. Grace Heliums of Los Angeles, Cel., suing for a divorce, testified that her husband literally fell out of her arms into the arms of another woman. That waa what you’d call falling from Grace. It’s a stubborn man who can read a patent medicine almanac through and not find some symp- tome that fit hie. Reading an article on the im portance of wills, brings to mind the colored troman who had lost her husband and went to the bank to attend to a mortgage on their home after hla death. "Did your husband laave a will?” asked the banker. "Tea, sir, dis i» him here," she beamed as sho pointed to her son, Will, Jr, who had ac companied her to the bank • It coats s man just about twice as much to live beyond his means nodr as it once did From the progress it is making now the only way ih* General As sembly will ever adjourn sine die will be for nil of Us members to die. It seems that when it comes to public spending some way la golnx :o hare tA be devlaed to reduce the “Irreducible minimum” at which government agencies say they can operate. * " J - * f ■ • - - tye don^t know Just how they have succeeded j^n doing It but the Central and South American republics kave been able to curb the number of revolutions they have. It used to be that there was a revolution In lyrogress in one or other of the countries nearly all of the time. Now they do not occur so frequently. A business man of one of the "banana republics” once wrote a letter placing an order for an engine capable of a thousand revolutiona a minute. The letter was intercepted by government agents, whereupon the business man was called before El ytesh dente, who flald: "One revolution a day we oan handle rat a thous and revolutions a ’ minute—too much!" « * A writer says that there will never be anything that can take the place of man. Don’t know about that! Look what the auto mobile has done for the horse! The Fon of Nikon, wj^o has 100 wives, says that a man Is entitled to as many wives as he can keep happy. Ton write your own com ment to this one. 4 ^ •' - . After hoaxing a woman sing "Lover Oome Back To Me” the other night, we were not surprised that he had left her. i a CAMDEN ACADEMY Camden's newest indus try. Invest today. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby glvon that one month from this date, on April 17, 1950, Deas M. Capehart, will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County her final return os Execu trix of the estate of Elizabeth S. Boykin, deceased, and on the same date she will apply to tho sold Court for a final discharge as said Executrix. 79T4tc N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate Camfai't CAMDEN At Invert NOTICE TO AND Cl __ All parties indebted i of James Edmund hereby notified to to the undersigned, tad if any, having claims i said estate will prezest wise, duly attested, vttfe prescribed bylaw. 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